Insignia on front of jersey is a nod to the Birmingham Black Barons, a Negro League baseball team that played from 1920 to 1962
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Birmingham Barons unveil MLK-inspired jerseys
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a centerpiece of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. King wrote the letter on scraps of newspaper and delivered it piecemeal to Civil Rights leaders through his lawyers while imprisoned in 1963. More than half a century after its writing, King’s letter,